Samsung has announced its first HDR10+ gaming displays, which will support the Gaming version of HDR10, as well as automatically calibrate.
According to Samsung, the company’s new 2022 QLED TV (Q70 and above) and gaming monitor lineup will be the first to support HDR10+.
Samsung collaborated with Saber Interactive to bring HDR10+ capability to Redout 2 and Pinball FX, which will both be exhibited at CES 2022 (as long as the game developer doesn’t pull out).
Also, Game Mechanics Studios‘ HDR10+ gaming title Happy Trails and the Kidnapped Princess will be on display.
Samsung’s marketing campaign focuses on games that are distinct from the major games on rival formats: Dolby Vision gaming, including Halo Infinite, Gears 5, and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The Xbox Series X and S already support 10 or more titles on Dolby Vision.
There’s a lot of metadata in HDR10+ Gaming, which is more visual than regular HDR10 (targets four times peak brightness), supports variable refresh rate (VRR), and has auto low latency mode (ALLM) for better looking and behaving game visuals.
According to Samsung, the standard will operate “over 120Hz.” However, there is no further information provided.
The competition’s ultimate standard, Dolby Vision gaming, already does everything that this one claims to do (with the exception of 120Hz and above). Samsung’s competitor LG revealed its C1 and G1 OLED displays with the Dolby Vision gaming standard in June.
Because the whole HDR10+ experience, like Dolby Vision, is only enjoyable if the entire system is vertically integrated to support the format.
To enjoy HDR10+ Gaming, your computer will need an Nvidia graphics card (with support for GeForce RTX 30 Series, RTX 20 Series, and GTX 16 Series GPUs), a game that supports the extra visual information, and one of Samsung’s new displays capable of displaying it.